Many thanks Rick.  Once again it's a case of the most obvious answer completely eluding me.  I'm used to seeing Common Loons on lakes in Maine without any choppy water so they would indeed be sitting low.  On days when the wind was up enough to make enough chop to expose the flanks, I would have been hunkered down inside drinking Dark & Stormys.

Best,
Steve


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> From: Rick Borchelt <>
> Date: December 1, 2011 9:03:14 AM EST
> To: 
> Subject: Fwd: [MDOSPREY] Follow-up re: Loon
> 

> Steve, usually they ride so low in the water that all you see is the
> barring on the flank.  But even in slight chop they can bounce up so
> that a really pretty extensive white area can be seen, as in this
> stockphoto shot I pulled from the web ...
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Steve Hersey <>
> Date: Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 8:53 AM
> Subject: [MDOSPREY] Follow-up re: Loon
> To: 
> 
> 
> Hi again, I hope nobody got overly excited about my previous posting.
> I was not trying to see if this might be turn out to be a rare Loon
> for MD.  Rather, I was and still am hoping to learn if high white
> flanks are common on floating Common Loons.  I just don't recall
> seeing flanks like this.
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve Hersey
> Alexandria, VA
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